Word: withdrawal
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Leaders of the New York demonstration met with Lawrence Marshall, vice-chairman of the bank, who gave the stock response of the day: we feel no moral compulsion to withdraw our in vestments...
While Swarthmore students were putting pressure on their administration to withdraw funds from Chase Manhattan, Aggrey Awori '65 lamented Harvard's indirect investments in South Africa at Faneuil Hall last evening...
...country would not go along with extreme measures against the West Germans. And Morocco's King Hassan II, in Cairo for a state visit, did not even mention the German problem in his speech at an official dinner. Fact was, all the Arab states were probably willing to withdraw their ambassadors from Bonn, but many were reluctant to go much farther. Only the extremist bloc of Egypt, Yemen and Iraq, possibly joined by Syria and Algeria, seemed likely to go the whole...
...More. It was revocable, all right. But it took an emergency weekend meeting of the regents nearly six hours to decide whether Kerr should be asked to withdraw his resignation, and on what terms. The board finally agreed not to interfere directly with Kerr's administration, but it stiffened his spine with resolutions declaring that 1) students must observe "proper standards of conduct in good taste," and 2) university chancellors of all campuses are expected to discipline those who misbehave. "A lot of air has been cleared," said Kerr. But the forecast was for still more smog...
...Berkeley Student Council this morning passed two resolutions asking that Kerr and Meyerson withdraw their resignations. Both men indicated that they had resigned in a parliamentary move. Kerr said "I have resigned to stop the continuing and destructive degradation of freedom into license and to avoid a new confrontation at Berkeley which could only damage the campus even more...